Enhanced folder summary view of dexterity contents

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Hello. I am not sure I am posting in the most appropriate section.
I am quite new to Plone, but I have managed to work with it for a few months (Plone 5).
I am developing a website intended for a scientific community which will be invited to contribute to the website content. For this reason I want to make content creation as straightforward as possible.

I have created a Dexterity content type "Scattering Database" and an associated mosaic view.
Some examples of this content can be seen here
http://snowport.meteo.uni-koeln.de/snow-scattering/scattering-databases
The folder containing them has a restriction rule to allow just Scattering Database content type and I have assigned it to display a summary view.

I would like to modify this summary view of the folder in order to allow a quick look of some of fields of each database.
Basically instead of displaying
Title, Lead Image, Summary
I would like it to show
Title, Lead Image, frequencies, particle_sizes

is there any way to do it without too much effort? Possibly TTW?
Thanks a lot for your help

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Hi and welcome to Plone :slight_smile:

Did you already take a look at the Plone Training docs for customizing existing templates?

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Thanks,
I saw the training. Unfortunately I have no previous experience with html, css and other web languages. I have a quite robust experience with python, but I guess that does not help too much in this context.
I was looking for some straightforward way to manage view of listed content as mosaic provide an easy and accessible way to modify view of single elements.
But I understand that I have to go through the hard way to do that.

Thanks again

Davide

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Does anyone know if

works in Plone 5 ?

(if it does, it might be what you need)

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We haven't upgraded it yet.
This might happen. However be aware that @mikkohu is working on a GSOC project which aims to replace this with a mosaic based custom listing and search feature that will be even better.

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Both seems to address my issue.
However listing as djay said listingviews has not been ported and it also seems that the it is not actively developed on github
I will look forward to test mikko's gsoc project.
In the meantime... I will do my best to solve it the hard way

Thanks a lot for your suggestions

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Thanks again to everybody for the useful suggestions.

Unfortunately I was not able to follow the .pt modification as suggested by the training in https://training.plone.org/5/mastering_plone/zpt_2.html since I was not able to locate the files and the folders the training is referring to. The correspondence between the training filesystem and my buildout-cache is a little bit confusing and I decided not to touch it.
It seems every day I am using Plone I better understand how much ignorant I am :slight_smile:

As a workaround I started modifying the templates under portal_view_customization in the ZMI obtaining nice results.
The ZMI warns me about using that tool, but at the moment, this is my best solution

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